BALLANTYNE | date night
"Colin got down on one knee, and said all the right things," Hyde recalls with a laugh. "And then he surprised me with all of our family members, our parents and really close friends (joining us). It was really neat."
Hyde had no idea what her longtime beau Ricks had planned the evening before they left for Mexico.
Charlotte before our trip, I couldn't think of any place I'd rather do it."
"Ever since the first time we ate there, Bernard has always walked out to the table, talked to us, and made us feel at home," Hyde adds. "We have just come to love it."
She means Bernard Brunet, Global's executive chef who studied and worked in his native France before moving to the U.S. and launching Global with his wife, Shannon, a native of Boone.
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